“[Pravin Gordhan] was a highly skilled backroom operator who shied away from the spotlight” (Getty Images)
Less than a week before his death from cancer on Friday morning, a message of support from former public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan was delivered on his behalf to the 130th anniversary commemoration of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban.
Gordhan, who retired in May, had been scheduled to address the commemoration of an organisation which, as a young activist, he…